We want it all now!

We can't wait! If we want something, we want it now! We like a high-end villa, so we book it and for that we strive for a fatter pay packet. Obviously it would mean longer hours at workplace and so lesser time for family, lesser time for the child waiting at home for a cozy one-to-one interaction with the parent, but we are OK with it. We make ourselves, even the child, believe that we really need that premier villa, that it's even more precious than family time. It's all because we want it now! We can't wait!

When our children write exams and tests, we want good scores from them and how do we ensure that? Of course, studying, which means a lot of rote learning too. Hold on, did we think of the other way of looking at it? Getting into the details, understanding and then applying the knowledge gained and then learning - that's a huge task and time-consuming too.

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Are the children ready for that? Are we, the parents, ready to give them time for that, inclined to encourage them to go that long way? If we, in our daily life, are impatient and want everything now, what message are we passing on the children? To be patient and really learn something in and out? Or to be impatient and do a superficial learning because grades are all that matter?

Newspapers eulogize people who have made it big very early in their life, who have tasted success in a short span of time, and we all get charged up and try to emulate them, at least wish to be like them - all because we are impatient!

But then when the journey is too fast to the beach because we want to look at the sea, don't we forget to gaze at the many beautiful scenes and things all along our journey, the sunrises and sunsets that we thought we saw but we didn't really see, the shells on the beach?

Impatience gifts us with one thing, but steals away many other things, which would have made us happier, had we not been blinded by what others found happiness in, had we listened to what our hearts really wanted.